Of course, the “High School” singer saw this tweet of adoration and had to reply, and we’re officially obsessed with this Twitter conversation.

“KELLY. I couldn’t adore you more than I do. Thank you. 🙌🏼💕,” Ballerini replied, and let’s be honest we’d probably be a lot more out of control if Clarkson tweeted about something we made, so props to Ballerini for keeping it somewhat cool.

While this isn’t the first star that Clarkson has showed some love for recently, she gave a big shout out to Jennifer Hudson on Twitter a few weeks ago, and gushed over Gal Gadot in October, this newfound love of Ballerini’s music is just awesome.

If only we could get these two to do a duet in the future… or maybe Ballerini could come and help Clarkson on The Voice next season. There are so many musical possibilities! Until one, or both of these things happen, we’ll be listening to “I Hate Love Songs” on repeat as well as the rest of Ballerini’s album, because Clarkson basically told us to do so.